Happy Birthday Kate! Here’s to eating your cake, your dinner, your donuts, your cheeses and whatever else you like on your birthday and any other day. Thank you for being a voice of sanity in an insane world.

It is a balmy 70 degrees in my office but I look outside at the grey and know it is below zero OUTSIDE! Happy birthday wishes! *huggles extra layers of fat* Man I’m glad I’m not thinner when it gets cold like this! ;)

I will not rub your face in any warm weather. It’s 37 here. Which may be warm in comparison, but around these parts, we’re used to temps above 80. 130 is not unusual. So we lose our shit when it gets cold.

was -22 this morning when I went to start the car. a heatwave has moved in an it’s now about -18.
Early reports this week had it dipping to -40 tonight but that has been updated to a low of -28.
(all temps in Celcius – to calculate F degrees (temp x 2) +30 = F degrees (give or take a degree) ).

Early reports this week had it dipping to -40 tonight but that has been updated to a low of -28.
(all temps in Celcius – to calculate F degrees (temp x 2) +30 = F degrees (give or take a degree) ).
My understanding that 40 below is the point where the two scales converge, so I guess that if it did drop that low, that would be the silver lining?
This unnecessary display of trivia brought to you by Kate’s Kiss-my-ass Krispies. You’ll love the baby flavour so much, you’ll eat 2 boxes instead of just one!

Happy birthday from sunny California… although I for one would prefer some cooler and rainier weather. Does that count for a non-ban? ::perks up and looks around anxiously as crickets chirp in the background:: Anyone…?

Happy birthday to a fellow January baby (mine’s on the 29th, and it will probably still be cold as a witch’s tit in Maryland when it rolls around). Gotta love winter birthdays when you’re living in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or wayyyyyy up north!

( Also, Mackintosh was my growing up “buy it at the store when I had any money at all” treat, and it is suddenly, shockingly absent from my local grocery store. I may need to order it online. Not right! )

I know this is your birthday thread and all, but did you get a long down coat last year? You totally inspired me to get one (yes! it’s ok if fatties look fatter to stay warm!) and I was walking around Wisconsin today, where it’s colder, albeit not very much, than Chicago in my toasty Land’s End commuter coat.

Happy Birthday and thank you for all the wit and wisdom! Donuts for everyone.

(I can’t brag about any balmy weather, but I did make the mistake of telling a friend in Chicago via email that I was off to the gym and wasn’t looking forward to the mile walk because it’s 15. She said, “15 ABOVE and you’re complaining!?” Oops! Stay warm…..)

Here’s my rendition of the traditional birthday song sung in our house:

You’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older
and now you’re even older
and now you’re even older
you’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older
and now you’re older still!
/sing

Don’t blame me, blame They Might Be Giants, and the fact that I hate it when people sing me Happy Birthday.

Kate’sSisterJ, the cakey-cookie-orange gel-chocolate-dipped things are “Jaffa Cakes”. Jaffas are chocolate coated in an orange flavoured candy coating. Sort of like a large M&M but orange and spherical and just all-round better.

Happy Belated Birthday, Kate! (I’m just back in town so only now seeing this.) As an example of all the ways that you’ve made my life better by blogging, here is a verbatim exchange I had with my 4 y.o. today.